Palin Speech
FLASH: Drudge Report is now reporting that more than 37 million viewers watched Sarah Palin's speech last night! That's just a hair under The Messiah's numbers of 38 million -- and he had a 19 month media build-up to his speech!
Here is word from Redstate.com that McCain Campaign sources say that during Sarah Palin's speech last night the teleprompter stopped working properly, leaving her to speak without it's help! Drudge is linking to the Redstate article. She did not miss a beat! So much for the, "She can read a telemprompter well" attack! Priceless!
Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.
According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.
Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.
Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.
Sarah Palin. Winner.
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One of the new attack lines on Sarah Palin by the Democrats and their accomplices in the media is that Sarah Palin did a good job "reading the teleprompter" in her speech last night. Anyone with a brain could see she did far more than "read the teleprompter." She had the crowd, and I think a fair slice of America - eating out of her hand, last night! For three days, the Democrats and the media had beat her and her family down to be nothing but a bunch of "bumpkins" who were in way over their collective heads.
Yet, she went out there and - without even a hint of panic or nerves - absolutely blew the roof off the bulding! If the Democrats and the media think Palin is just a good teleprompter reader, they are "whistling past the graveyard."
Question to ponder: When have you ever heard the media after an Obama speech say, "He read the teleprompter well?"
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Here is video of Sen. John McCain joining the Palin family onstage last night after Sarah Palin's stirring acceptance speech that electrified the Republican National Convention.
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Here is the text of Sarah Palin's speech last night:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.
It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.
With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost - there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.
But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.
They overlooked the caliber of the man himself - the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.
And maybe that's because they realize there is a time for politics and a time for leadership ... a time to campaign and a time to put our country first.
Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by.
He's a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I'm just one of many moms who'll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Our son Track is 19.
And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he'll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.
My nephew Kasey also enlisted, and serves on a carrier in the Persian Gulf.
My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform. Track is the eldest of our five children.
In our family, it's two boys and three girls in between - my strong and kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.
That's how it is with us.
Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.
And children with special needs inspire a special love.
To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Todd is a story all by himself.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy. My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town.
And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.
A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people. read more »
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Here are some great quotes from Sarah Palin's speech last night via Polipundit.com:
“Nearly 130 times, he couldn’t make a decision. He couldn’t vote yes or no. It was too tough. He voted present. I didn’t know about this vote present when I was mayor of NYC.”
“If I’m Joe Biden, I’m thinking I’d better get that VP thing in writing.”
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a `community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
“This is a man who has authored two memoirs but not one major law. This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never say the word victory except when he’s talking about his own campaign.”
“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.”
“That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on E-bay.”
And more quotes via First Read:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hit Obama on his experience and that "bitter" comment he made before the Pennsylvania primary: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
On foreign policy: "This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot, what exactly is our opponent's plan?... Victory in Iraq is finally in sight, he wants to forfeit."
On domestic policy: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
And on change: "In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."
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Gov. Sarah Palin far exceeded expectations last night with her speech that was absolutely a work of art! Now the nation knows why John McCain chose her, and why she carries the nickname "Sarah Barracuda!" Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.com has written an excellent review of Palin's speech. Here are a couple of excerpts from his review. Be sure and read it all here:
Perhaps the media and Democrats would have been better advised to set expectations high for Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech tonight at the Republican convention. After ridiculing her as a small-town yokel for the better part of three days, Palin would have looked good if she managed to avoid drooling during her speech. In the event, though, they could have set expectations as high as a Barack Obama acceptance speech, and Palin would still have exceeded them in a tremendous debut on the national stage.
Palin made it clear to the condescending media and her Democratic critics that she is no pushover, no cream puff. Her nickname, “Sarah Barracuda”, seems a lot more fitting after tonight. Not only did she defend her small-town upbringing, she attacked Barack Obama on almost every possible front, and for good measure went after Joe Biden and the mainstream media as well. . . .
Palin showed her mettle tonight. Alaskans tell us that she is “tough as nails” and doesn’t run from a fight. Tonight, she challenged Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the media elite to a fight to the finish. And she has bad news for them: she has no plans to quit.
Republicans should feel cheered and elated by this event tonight. No matter what happens in this race, we have seen the future of the party, and it looks bright indeed. . . . . Read it all
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Here is raw video of Sarah Palin doing a "walk-through" at the Excel Center in Minneapolis this morning in preparation for her huge Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech to be delivered tonight sometime after 9:00 PM CDT.
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